Astrology and Popular Religion in the Modern West: Prophecy, Cosmology and the New Age MovementAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 01/09/2012 - 224 من الصفحات This book explores an area of contemporary religion, spirituality and popular culture which has not so far been investigated in depth, the phenomenon of astrology in the modern west. Locating modern astrology historically and sociologically in its religious, New Age and millenarian contexts, Nicholas Campion considers astrology's relation to modernity and draws on extensive fieldwork and interviews with leading modern astrologers to present an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the origins and nature of New Age ideology. This book challenges the notion that astrology is either 'marginal' or a feature of postmodernism. Concluding that astrology is more popular than the usual figures suggest, Campion argues that modern astrology is largely shaped by New Age thought, influenced by the European Millenarian tradition, that it can be seen as an heir to classical Gnosticism and is part of the vernacular religion of the modern west. |
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Prophecy, Cosmology and the New Age Movement Dr Nicholas Campion. 1Luke 21.10–11. 2 See, forexample, Elliot Miller,A Crash Course on theNew Age Movement (Eastbourne, 1990), p. 27; Wouter J. Hanegraaff, New Age Religion and Western ...
... for new soul faculties.1 Since theearly part of the twentieth century the millenarian terms 'New Age' and 'Age of Aquarius' have often been used assynonyms. They are not, in spite of the many writerswho regard them asidentical, the same ...
... ages lends them an auraof objective reality. The New Age, bycontrast, isaphase ofhistorywhose existencein timeisdefined byhumanity's nearuniversalpsychological inclination toanticipate an imminent transformationin society, the world ...
Prophecy, Cosmology and the New Age Movement Dr Nicholas Campion. the signs untilit rose in Aquarius atthe spring equinox of 1726. Thiswas toocloseto Delaunaye's own time forhim to specifyitscultural correlations. Insteadhe wrote simply ...
... Age of Aquariusin the English language. Astrologers, whom one mightimagine would have been eager toadopt the theory of astrological ages as soonasit started circulating, had stood aloof from the new astronomical model ofhistory set out ...